Quid Pro Quo Sexual Harassment

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In Culley v. West Bolivar Consolidated School District et al, 2023 WL 5007871 (N.D.Miss. August 4, 2023), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment on plaintiff’s quid pro quo sexual harassment claim. The court summarized and applied the law as follows: Sex discrimination and sexual harassment in public employment violate the Equal…

Read More Quid Pro Quo Sexual Harassment Claim Survives Summary Judgment; Termination Followed Rebuff of Alleged Sexual Advances
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In Reed v. Fortive Corporation et al, 2023 WL 4457908 (W.D.N.Y. July 11, 2023), the court, inter alia, dismissed plaintiff’s “quid pro quo” sexual harassment claim asserted under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. From the decision: Here, Plaintiff alleges that her quid pro quo claim arises from her denial of McCauley’s…

Read More Quid Pro Quo Sexual Harassment Claim Dismissed as Insufficiently Alleged
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In Kirstyn Crawford v. American Broadcasting Company, et al., No. 157874/21, 2022-02552, 258, 2023 N.Y. Slip Op. 02611, 2023 WL 3468449 (N.Y.A.D. 1 Dept., May 16, 2023), the court modified the lower court’s dismissal of plaintiff’s hostile work environment and sex discrimination claims. From the decision: The allegations supporting plaintiff’s hostile work environment and sex…

Read More Sex-Based Hostile Work Environment Claim Against ABC Resurrected From Dismissal
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In Harvison v. G.A. West & Co., Inc., 2023 WL 2998482, at *5 (S.D.Miss. April 18, 2023), the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, inter alia, granted one plaintiff leave to file an amended complaint to assert a “quid pro quo” sexual harassment claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act…

Read More Title VII “Quid Pro Quo” Sexual Harassment Claim, With Amendment, Plausibly Alleged
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In Bernhard v. Google, Inc., No. 155597/2020, 2023 WL 2989640 (N.Y. Sup Ct, New York County Apr. 14, 2023), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s sexual harassment claim asserted under the New York City Human Rights Law. The court summarized the black-letter law as follows: “Quid pro quo sexual harassment occurs…

Read More Quid Pro Quo Sexual Harassment Claim Sufficiently Alleged Against Google
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In Klymn v. Monroe County Supreme Court et al, 2022 WL 16950048 (W.D.N.Y. Nov. 15, 2022), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s claim of hostile work environment sexual harassment asserted against a former New York State Supreme Court Judge. As to the sufficiency of the allegations, the court explained: Lastly, having…

Read More Hostile Work Environment Sexual Harassment Claim Survives Dismissal Against Former Judge; Acts Dating Back to 2005 May be Considered
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In Miro v. City of Bridgeport, No. 3:20CV00346(SALM), 2022 WL 3284400 (D.Conn. Aug. 11, 2022), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s claims of sexual harassment – alleged under the rubric of “hostile work environment” and “quid pro quo” theories – in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of…

Read More Hostile Work Environment and Quid Pro Quo Sexual Harassment Claims Survive Dismissal
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In Karpaitis v. Mandal’s, Inc., 21-cv-305, 2022 WL 2445004 (S.D. Miss. July 5, 2022), the court, inter alia, dismissed plaintiff’s quid pro quo sexual harassment claim. From the decision: [A] quid pro quo sexual harassment claim requires that the plaintiff suffer a tangible employment action for her refusal to submit to a supervisor’s sexual demands. Ellerth,…

Read More “Quid Pro Quo” Sexual Harassment Claim Dismissed, Notwithstanding “Flirtatious, Offensive, and Altogether Inappropriate” Comments
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In Díaz-Zayas v. Municipality of Guaynabo, et al, No. 18-1668 (RAM), 2022 WL 1322657 (D.Puerto Rico April 27, 2022), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss plaintiff’s quid pro quo sexual harassment claim asserted under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The court summarized the factual allegations, in part, as…

Read More Quid Pro Quo Sexual Harassment Claim, Based on Alleged Conduct of Héctor O’Neill-García, Survives Dismissal
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In Cruse v. Bi-State Development Agency of Missouri-Illinois Metropolitan District, No. 4:20-cv-366-MTS, 2022 WL 1185149 (E.D.Mo. April 21, 2022), the court, inter alia, held that factual issues precluded summary judgment on plaintiff’s claims of sexual harassment. In sum, plaintiff alleged that her supervisor (Brew) sexually harassed her, both in person and by phone, and that…

Read More Sexual Harassment Claim(s) Survive Summary Judgment; Factual Issues Existed as to Whether Harassment Culminated in a “Tangible Employment Action” Etc.
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